Brian
Calfano

I spend my days at latakoo helping filmmakers and newsrooms move the footage that becomes their stories, and I make documentaries about the people who built television news.

Director of Film Partnerships and inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at latakoo. Ph.D. in political science; twenty years teaching and reporting, including teaching at California State University and Texas A&M University.

Choosing the hard options

On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy stood at Rice University and made the case for setting out to do something not because it was easy, but because it was hard. That idea — that difficulty is a reason to pursue a goal, not avoid it — has stayed with me through a career spent chasing the harder version of the truth: the story that takes longer to report, the interview that's harder to get, the workflow that's harder to build so the story gets told at all.

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

John F. Kennedy · Rice University · September 12, 1962

It's why this site carries the name We Choose.